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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCEB:

Be it known that I, CHAuLEs QUARTLEY, of the city and countyof Baltimore, and State'of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cigars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full s and exact desoription of the same,.reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, formiugpart of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a sideview, End p i Figure 2 an vand view ol my improvement aforesaid.'`

My invention' consists in. making cigars or cigarettes setlist they shall ig'nite hyl friction, by means'of a composition applied to the end thereof, in themanner hereinafter derserihed;l andin'the use of a Vcertain ingredient as one of themateriel'per-tiens of the.- igniting-cempos-tilt To enable those skilled in the art toavhich this lpertains to malte and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it, andthe materials used. therefor.

I take, of tobacco, eight pounds; lsaltpotre, twelve pounds; charcoal, one pound. YThese ingredients I mix s with suicient dissolved shellac to make -a mass of the consistency of stiii paste.

When the cigars or cigarettes have been finished in the usual manner, I take them, one at a time, and apply a portion of the above composition evenly over the end of the-cigar, (as shown at 13,) with a small knife or any other convenient instrument, or they may be dipped into the compositionfa number of them at once', butl prefer t the former method. The cigars are then laid aside for a short time, and, as soon as the composition becomes hardA enough, a small portion of any of the ordinary match-compositions, of which phosphorus is usuallythe main ingredients, is placed in the centre of the first composition, as shownat A.

After this composition has hurnedout, t-lcavcs a live coal ori thej end ofthe cigar, which usually. continuesV in this condition for somo time, so that the smoker need not immediately draw on it.` This lcoul lights the cigar in a perfectly even and regular manner, so that the cigardoesinot` burn on one side', as is `usually the case when i lighted in the ordinary way with matches, &c.

I am aware that it has been proposed-to insert a matchin 'thefend of a cigar, sofas to ignite it by friction, but this would he injurious to the smoker. and spoil the'lavort the cigar.' This I do not claim; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As afnew article of manufacture, the cigar or cigarette, having the ends coated with the composition herein' describcdifand'providing it with a fulminating-compound, as and for the purpose set forth.

Thisispecication Vof my-inven signed hy me, this 17th day of September, 1867.

` CHARLES QUARTLEY.

Witnesses:

Thomas Rosnn'rson, Cnsntas H. Mifune. 

